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Individual Speaker Profile


Date Joined: June 27, 2015
Country: United States
Home Town: Arlington
Zip Code: 02476
Registered for Upcoming Summit: No
Affiliations
  • Cloud Technology Partners - From 2013-04-08 To 2013-07-23
Statement of Interest

Author of OpenStack Architecture Design Guide and long time participant in the project.

Areas Of Expertise
  • Cloud Integration
  • Cloud Networking
  • Telecom
  • Software Defined Networking
  • Edge Computing

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Bio

SDN Product Strategist at Verizon, working on developing virtualized networking products and services. Involved in the OpenStack community since 2010. Helped architect some of the earliest large deployments, writing the documentation and designing the architectures. Co-author of the OpenStack Architecture Design Guide. Active in the OpenStack Community as a member of the Edge Computing Work Group, developing the requirements for building tools to support Edge for several projects (StarlingX, Ironic). 

Most recently working on Edge computing and Telco Infrastructure that support VNF and CNF type workloads. Architected several SDN products for Verizon, including Virtual Network Services, which is 100% based on OpenStack Infrastructure. Working on adding NaaS and SASE products. On the Open Source community side, she is on Governance and Technical Leadership committees in the role of  Co-chair of the Anuket Telco NFV infrastructure project and Chair of the EUAG (End User Advisory Group). 


Presentations from previous and upcoming OpenInfra Summits:
Additional presentations:

Willing to present via video conference: Yes
Willing to travel to any country: Yes
Fluent in
  • English

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